I'm guessing no one's making any money on home security since at best it's a placebo.
Being secure means paying attention, not acting like an asshole and just generally not being stupid. Which a bunch of cheap sensors and some noisemakers won't come close to replicating.
Not to mention that the kind of people/domiciles that could actually use a boost in security probably don't have the disposable income to throw away on some plastic junk.
Yes, well, I'm not so much looking for charts in general, but an aggregation of charts over time showing the peak shifting ahead over the decades, as you claimed before.
For example, I've been visiting the oildrum for some time now, and I don't recall anyone referencing peak oil being that ephemeral. Certainly, in the last decade, predictions and assessments of actual peak have been fluid, but nowhere near on the order of decades your original post implies.
Way to twist my argument. It's just gospel these days that there's nothing government can do that private enterprise can't do better.
Except that, if you'd been paying attention, it seems that plenty of businesses, big and small, fuck up spectacularly and/or go down in blaze of glory (or whimper of acquisition).
So it seems to me that large, goal-oriented groups all have an equal chance of failure, whether there's a profit motive or not.
Yet, the mantra still is "Private enterprise is better than public." Wonder why that is.
Seconded. I've run various servers for various purposes for years at home, but for the shit that just needs to work all the time with minimal fuss, paying someone else to do it is the smarter and cheaper choice.
Shit, I still can't believe I have a chequing account.
Also, I never called shareholders evil, that was your freudian addition. Myself, I would have difficulty pinning moral agency on a such a cypher-like class of people.
Don't be an idiot. A proper capitalistic system where information is transparent and the consumer is given the tools and the latitude to make informed and cost effective decisions makes for shitty QE reports. And who's more important? Little old you or shareholders of $CORPORATION?
Gabe, are you reading? I consider your experiments when you let my family and friends play the games I hypothetical could buy from your platform with their own users on my PC/Steam Box/whatever you will try to sell. Until my games aren't tied to only my account for play, you are out of my living room.
This is quite possibly the dumbest argument against Steam I've ever heard.
Referring to the part I bolded, what would be a suitable alternative then?
Slashdot Mirror
And buying government favor isn't a part of capitalism, it's a perversion of it.
Unless you're a defence contractor. Then, it's apple pies all way down.
You see that gold mine over there? Imma exploit the shit outta that bitch, and getting your panties in a twist over nomenclature ain't gonna stop me!
Speaking from recent personal experience for some of that, actually. But thanks for assuming.
I'm guessing no one's making any money on home security since at best it's a placebo.
Being secure means paying attention, not acting like an asshole and just generally not being stupid. Which a bunch of cheap sensors and some noisemakers won't come close to replicating.
Not to mention that the kind of people/domiciles that could actually use a boost in security probably don't have the disposable income to throw away on some plastic junk.
Don't be silly. They just want to add blackjack and hookers is all.
Carbon is NOT a pollutant
Congratulations, you are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
Now, see how far it gets you when millions of people fleeing the coastlines drive your property prices down.
First the government screw up the cities
Well, seeing as this is London, and was "planned" over hundreds of years, I don't think that criticism works as well as you think.
Their platform requires that the county be racist, misogynist, homophobic, and poor.
Good point. Probably why the GOP won't be seeing the inside of the White House anytime during the next 6 years.
Yes, well, I'm not so much looking for charts in general, but an aggregation of charts over time showing the peak shifting ahead over the decades, as you claimed before.
For example, I've been visiting the oildrum for some time now, and I don't recall anyone referencing peak oil being that ephemeral. Certainly, in the last decade, predictions and assessments of actual peak have been fluid, but nowhere near on the order of decades your original post implies.
You keep seeing that chart over and over again, just the peak is moved to the decade during which the chart is drawn.
Care to post some links to make it interesting? Cuz in 10 years studying the subject, I can't recall ever hearing that claim before.
Way to twist my argument. It's just gospel these days that there's nothing government can do that private enterprise can't do better.
Except that, if you'd been paying attention, it seems that plenty of businesses, big and small, fuck up spectacularly and/or go down in blaze of glory (or whimper of acquisition).
So it seems to me that large, goal-oriented groups all have an equal chance of failure, whether there's a profit motive or not.
Yet, the mantra still is "Private enterprise is better than public." Wonder why that is.
Somebody explain to me again how private enterprise is just in every way better and more efficient than government?
True, but no other country on earth likes to boast about FREEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!!! as much as the US.
I don't think most people believe the US is the only country that does this, just the one with the most cognitive dissonance.
I think you replied to the wrong post.
Seconded. I've run various servers for various purposes for years at home, but for the shit that just needs to work all the time with minimal fuss, paying someone else to do it is the smarter and cheaper choice.
What's in YOUR wallet?
No no no, GP is correct. Inspector Clouseau types know something is expected of them, whereas Barney Fifes know that no one cares what they do.
No, no, and no.
Shit, I still can't believe I have a chequing account.
Also, I never called shareholders evil, that was your freudian addition. Myself, I would have difficulty pinning moral agency on a such a cypher-like class of people.
Don't be an idiot. A proper capitalistic system where information is transparent and the consumer is given the tools and the latitude to make informed and cost effective decisions makes for shitty QE reports. And who's more important? Little old you or shareholders of $CORPORATION?
I just love the fact that 15 years ago, Dell was King Shit and predicting Apple's demise in short order.
Now look were we stand.
There is little reason to believe that these countries are better governed, and plenty of evidence that they are not.
Some links please. "Italy is a fucking mess" won't cut it.
Canyonero!
Do you seriously think that Sony is one monolithic organization?
While you may be technically correct, that's still THEIR problem, not ours. Or at least it should be.
Why would the GOP ever impeach him for this when they're quite happy to have this power if and when they retake the Oval Office?
Gabe, are you reading? I consider your experiments when you let my family and friends play the games I hypothetical could buy from your platform with their own users on my PC/Steam Box/whatever you will try to sell. Until my games aren't tied to only my account for play, you are out of my living room.
This is quite possibly the dumbest argument against Steam I've ever heard.
Referring to the part I bolded, what would be a suitable alternative then?